The top four winners in this year's Metro East Start-Up Challenge represent the health care, heavy equipment, specialty foods and transportation, and took home a share of $28,000 in cash prizes.
A coalition of Missouri business advocacy groups says it is exploring multiple avenues to challenge the implementation of Proposition A — a measure that Missouri voters passed on Tuesday that will raise the state’s minimum wage and guarantee sick leave for some workers.
The measure passed with 58% of the vote and had the support of various unions and workers’ advocacy groups, social justice and civil rights organizations, over 500 state business owners and others.
The minimum wage will increase…
The parent company of Six Flags St. Louis in Eureka said it will conduct a "comprehensive review" of its 42 parks following its summer merger with theme park operator Cedar Fair, and will consider selling some of them.
The last months before the “really big” election, as Ed Sullivan would be wont to call it, have exacted a toll on the patience, reserve, sleep, psyche and relationships of a vast number of Americans.
Also it would be fair to add that millions of folks’ health, physical and mental both, have been, oh, affected – and not to a productive degree.
So having been unable to confidently offer political or candidate-choosing advice, there is one category in which I think some ideas may be timely…
The city of Pacific encouraged residents to prepare their properties for flooding and evacuate by Thursday morning as the nearby Meramec River is expected to hit major flood stage.
The NOAA National Water Prediction Service predicted the river at Pacific to rise to 27 feet later this week.
"I'm a little nervous," said Pacific Mayor Heather Filley, adding that it's not if, but when, the area south of town will flood. She is urging dozens of homeowners and business owners near the Meramec River to…
Ameren Missouri would spend more than $61 million to offset its past clean air violations under a joint proposal filed Wednesday in federal court.
The St. Louis-based electric utility, which serves 1.2 million customers, has been in litigation for more than a decade over its Rush Island Energy Center, which operated for years in violation of the Clean Air Act.
Ameren shut down Rush Island last month rather than install pollution controls to bring it into compliance with clean air standards.
In…
Missouri’s Planned Parenthood clinics filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to strike down the state’s current abortion restrictions, less than 24 hours after an amendment enshrining reproductive rights in the constitution was approved by voters.
The news was announced Wednesday afternoon by coalition members of Missourians for Constitutional Freedom, the organization behind Amendment 3.
Leaders with both Planned Parenthood Great Plains and Planned Parenthood Great Rivers said if the court grants…
A few months into the new year will bring the $5.2 billion all-stock merger of St. Louis-based Arch Resources and Consol Energy of Pittsburgh into a new company.
St. Louis County Executive Sam Page is starting the process to replace the county's prosecuting attorney after Wesley Bell won a seat in Congress on Tuesday.
In a press release, Page said he will begin accepting applications to fill the role Wednesday. The person chosen for the role will serve the remaining two years of Bell's term, through the end of 2026.
According to the press release, applicants must be:
A member of the same political party as the previous occupant. Bell is a Democrat.
A…
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